That's right - last Friday, I completed my montage assignment for my media production class.
And to be honest - although I spent the last three years in a digital multimedia class in high school - this is the first video project I've finished since 2010.
I think the problem before was the fact that in class at high school, I always bit off more than I could chew - and so I never had enough time to finish what I had started. I would end up losing motivation for the projects after a while, as well. And it really didn't help that we had no chance of working on our videos after school hours.
So, being able to start and finish this project made me really happy. Not to mention that it turned out quite well, and I'm pretty proud of it!
It did start to get a little scary near the end, though. I had just over an hour of footage - which is a lot less than others had. But the thing about mine, was that I did it on pole dancing. so a 20 second clip could have a whole bunch of usable clips mixed around in between, because my subject is constantly moving and doing new and different things.
But it still wasn't a lot of footage.
So when I started getting close to finishing, I started to run out of clips. I started to panic, and was just putting any kind of non-crappy footage into the empty spaces I had left. I think I ended with one unused clip left over. Yeah. Scary.
Thankfully, though, I did have enough. Barely. I had already re-shot the majority of my footage because the gain on my DSLR had messed everything up, so I really didn't want to have to shoot again (and miss out on my own pole classes).
Another problem I had was the door in the studio. Light comes through there pretty well. So I did one of my filmings around 3pm, where the light was shining through really strong. It made my footage quite beautiful, actually.
But, when I went to film the actual classes during the evening, things were different. I was filiming from about 6pm to 9pm. Right when the sun was going down. Meaning my light completely changed, and even the beginning of the footage was much different from my 3pm shooting. I ended up having to change the way I filtered my footage in my editing, as the consistency between the clips just plain sucked. But by making it mostly black and white and adjusting some of the levels, I was able to make it a little better. It was unfortunate, but there really wasn't much of another way to get around it.
Overall, I am really happy with what I have accomplished. I know I will learn from the mistakes I made this time around, and am excited to get better over the coming year as I work not only on my documentary, but in the media production major.
Today, I leave you with - you guessed it - my montage.
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